I'm not sure what has heaved me into my emetic predicament this morning, but I suspect it was yesterday's hourslong, Trump-defense-team freakshow.
I do recall that the first acute sign of gastrointestinal disruption came when attorney Eric Herschmann argued that President Obama, for having whispered to then-Russian prime minister Dmitry Medvedev, should have been impeached.
John Bolton? The defense team had never heard of him, excepting one dismissive reference by former scholar Alan Dershowitz, who, sadly, appears to have suffered some sort of psychotic break.
It does however seem that a few Republican senators have heard of Bolton, whose manuscript "revelations … appeared to shift the dynamic" for calling witnesses, reports the Times. Oddly, Texas senator John Cornyn, speaking on Fox News, had it right: "[Bolton's story] is nothing different from what we have already heard" — which should have already bounced Trump from office.
So far the most rewarding aspect of the Bolton nonshocker is that Mitch McConnell is "angry at having been blindsided by the White House," which had sat, like a guileful toddler by the broken cookie jar, on the manuscript for a month.
Bolton's impeachment-reinforcement had even Lindsey Graham, for Pete's sake, saying that the mustachioed neocon "may be a relevant witness."
Adding to the defense team's meltdown was that its star client, the extraordinarily guilty Donald J. Trump, "complained to associates that [its] presentations … were boring." Not that that stopped him from going on one of his manic Twitter rampages, which by themselves demonstrate his unprecedented unfitness for high office.
My gastro-complaining head must now return to the toilet, which isn't so bad, since there I can most clearly see and hear Trump's defense team.